Re: Using Batik for basic SVG generation

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Anthony Rowlands <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am evaluating Batik for my work. My main requirement is to generate SVG
> documents in Java, which will mostly be used by JavaScript for display or
> simply streamed somewhere else. So I am interested in generating SVG
> documents as strings and have no interest in Swing or working with Java
> Graphics. I also need the rasterizer packages for creating images out of
> the SVG, which I have experimented with and am impressed with so far.
>
> So what would be the recommended way of doing this? The main feature of
> Batik seems to be a mapping between Java's Graphics API and an SVG
> document, so that you can code using Java's built-in API's and have an SVG
> document come out of it.
>
> Question 1: If I don't need any of the features of AWT/Swing/Graphics
> etc., would it make more sense to build the SVG myself using only Java's
> XML API's and only use the rasterizer from Batik? This seems to be the best
> route right now to avoid the overhead of programming to the SVGGraphics2D
> API.
>
> Question 2: If I do this, and I have a huge SVG document as a String, is
> there an entry point back into SVGGraphics2D so that, if I eventually want
> to use the SVGGraphics2D features, I can start from an existing SVG
> document? I'm assuming there is such an entry point, but what happens if I
> then stream the document back out of SVGGraphics2D? I assume Batik will
> re-jigger the document in some way - can you comment on what will happen?
>
> Any advice is appreciated!
> Anthony
>